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Friday, June 19, 2015

The Writer's Voice 2015 Contest Entries! Go Team FTW!

“The Writer’s Voice” is a multi-blog,
multi-agent contest hosted byBrenda Drake,Mónica Bustamante Wagner,Elizabeth Briggs, and Krista Van Dolzer.We based the contest on NBC’s singing reality show The Voice,
so the four of us selected projects for our teams based on their queries and
first pages and coached the talented writers who wrote them as they polished
their entries.

And TODAY we get to post our team members’
finished entries on our blogs!

Twelve amazing agents are going to read these
queries and first pages, then vote for their favorites on Tuesday, June 23.
Each vote will count as a partial or full request depending on how many votes
the entry receives. If an entry receives 1 or 2 votes, those votes will count
as partial requests. If an entry receives 3 or more votes, those votes will
count as full requests.

Voting will stay open
until noon EDT on June 24, at which point we’ll determine which coach’s team
received the most votes (and let this year’s ninja agents take a crack at the
entries). That coach will win bragging rights for time immemorial, and everyone
who received requests will be able to submit their materials to all the agents
who voted for them. These votes represent serious interest in your project, so
PLEASE DON’T ACCEPT AN OFFER OF REPRESENTATION BEFORE GIVING “THE WRITER’S
VOICE” AGENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A COMPETING OFFER.

Lastly, cheerleading is allowed, but
only until Monday! We want to leave the comments free for the agents to vote on
Tuesday. (Also, we will only allow, well, cheerleading and/or positive
feedback. Please don’t critique the entries before the agents vote. On the flip
side, please don’t try to convince the agents that they want to vote for one of
your favorites or, you know, threaten to douse the agents in silly string if
they don’t vote for your critique partner. This is a silly-string-free site.)